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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
FFF
It's time for Flame-Free Friday!!!
Vent, complain, confess, whatever strikes your fancy! 
Re: FFF
I have a ton of homework due the first day of classes (Tuesday) and haven't started it yet.
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I'm starting to feel like a post whore now because no one else is on, but oh well!!
I really want to make those chocolate chip cookie dough truffles again just for myself to eat. I've wanted to for about two weeks now and it's getting hard to hold off. I think I'm going to make them for Charli's party just so I can eat a couple. Haha.
On a related note... I started making a list of all of the household 'chores', and noting what I do and what DH does. The list is HORRIBLY lopsided, but when I go through and try to think of what I would want him to take over, I come up with like 2 things. I'm too much of a control freak about everything else and I'm convinced he'll do it all "wrong" (aka, not the way I do)
It annoys me that my friends have Friday's off work and I don't. I want a 4 day work week dang it!
I absolutely hate cycling. I have to do it though if I want to lose any weight. My virginia hurts from that stupid class.
I adore my fiance. For my HALF birthday, I got beautiful flowers at work, some black diamond earrings and a new camera. I couldn't have gotten a better guy.
My Christmas tree is still up. I told DH I would take it down by NYE, but I have not.
Ours is too. I did take down the outside decorations, but just haven't had the time/energy to take down the inside stuff. :-
How incredibly sweet!!!
Since Ella was born I can't stand to be around my in-laws. MIL and FIL are still OK but we don't like to go to their house... and DH's grandparents drive me freeking crazy. On Thanksgiving his grandpa told me to "be easy with her" and I wanted to puch him in the face. All I was doing was carrying her with one arm. And his Grandma is OCD neat freak and washes her paci every 30 seconds and looks at me like I am an awful person when I put it in her mouth without washing it. She also ALWAYS thinks Ella is cold. I swear she tried to cook us on thanksgiving, it was really hot in her house so we had a window cracked and she kept closing it telling us the baby was going to "catch a chill" whatever that means? (she was not in front of the open window) They also always insist on holding her, she's not a real clingy baby and we do not hold her all day long, she sits in her bouncer and lays on her playmat. I interact with her plenty, it's not like I ignore her... but I don't want her to think that she needs to be held 24/7 either. And when they are around I don't get to see her, 2 seconds after walking in the door they try to take her away from me and they don't give her back unless I make them. I just want to explode at them most of the time. Apparently she has been calling Chase and giving him crap because we don't invite them over. We don't invite anyone over, if they want to come they need to call and ask and we do make an effort to make time.
WOW that was really long... they just drive me batty and make me want to move far far away.
I can definitely understand why you are so frustrated!
I am afraid I will have the same problem with some of my family. Baby C will be the first baby born in my family in quite a while (about thirteen years), and I have a feeling my family is going to be constantly holding her. I am trying to lay down ground rules about things in general right now, but I have a feeling there may be some issues soon.
Our baby girl!!
Most of my family members don't really care for the baby phase. My dad is the only one who really wants to hold her all the time, but I will just take her away from him, I don't care. I don't want to be the one to lay down the rules with his family, but he just seems oblivious and looks at it as a day off or something when they are around. It doesn't seem to bother him nearly as much.
My husband and I are really trying to save money (we have some renovations we want to do on the house and we want to start the baby making thing sometime in 2012). My in-laws do not seem to understand this. They always want to go out to eat and MIL gets upset if we won't. DH gets upset when I don't want to because I don't mind going out with my parents....my parents always pay when we go out--it costs us nothing!
I have another huge MIL vent, but its a pretty unique situation and with my luck someone she knows would read this board and pass along my complaint. So I'll scream on the inside!!
Why are our renters so un-reliable for making a payment. If your payment its due on the 1st you should pay it on the 1st. Then we get a partial payment w/ no explanation. We call get a sob story and give the women till the 14th to pay the remainder and still no $$. Guess who i'll be calling in a little while.
Watching my nieces for my sister this weekend.. Wow girls are so different then boys, I am so used to my little men.
Jen those muffins are so fricken good, the cookies are awesome too!
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"Cheese!"
I am scared to death of this whole childbirth thing...even moreso the aftermath. I just have this fear I can't do it.
My mom is once again taking over. When I was planning my wedding...I really did not want a shower...she insisted and took the reigns in planning it. Now she is insisting on a baby shower...I've told her to work with my two best friends on it...but at the same time, I fear it won't be much of a shower. Mainly family (keeping in mind my mom and one of my aunts don't get along) and a few friends. Over the last year, I've kind of grown apart from many people because life is like that. They still wanted to party all the time, and I was beyond that. Yep...I'm a loser with hardly any friends these days.
I'm thinking about going super short with my hair next weekend (Mom and I are spending a morning a Shamas...she's finally going to go to the woman who does my hair) but I'm afraid I will wuss out.
YOU CAN DO IT!!! (and you will! like a champ!)